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The GOGREEN Survey: Evidence of an Excess of Quiescent Disks in Clusters at 1.0

Chan, Jeffrey C. C.
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Wilson, Gillian
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Balogh, Michael
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October 1, 2021
The Astrophysical Journal

We present the results of the measured shapes of 832 galaxies in 11 galaxy clusters at 1.0 < z < 1.4 from the GOGREEN survey. We measure the axis ratio (q), the ratio of the minor to the major axis, of the cluster galaxies from near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope imaging using Sersic profile fitting and compare them with a field sample. We find that the median q of both star-forming and quiescent galaxies in clusters increases with stellar mass, similar to the field. Comparing the axis ratio distributions between clusters and the field in four mass bins, the distributions for star-forming galaxies in clusters are consistent with those in the field. Conversely, the distributions for quiescent galaxies in the two environments are distinct, most remarkably in 10.1 <= log(M/M-circle dot)<10.5 <i where clusters show a flatter distribution, with an excess at low q. Modelling the distribution with oblate and triaxial components, we find that the cluster and field sample difference is consistent with an excess of flattened oblate quiescent galaxies in clusters. The oblate population contribution drops at high masses, resulting in a narrower q distribution in the massive population than at lower masses. Using a simple accretion model, we show that the observed q distributions and quenched fractions are consistent with a scenario where no morphological transformation occurs for the environmentally quenched population in the two intermediate-mass bins. Our results suggest that environmental quenching mechanism(s) likely produce a population that has a different morphological mix than those resulting from the dominant quenching mechanism in the field.

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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ac1117
Web of Science ID

WOS:000705944900001

Author(s)
Chan, Jeffrey C. C.
Wilson, Gillian
Balogh, Michael
Rudnick, Gregory
van der Burg, Remco F. J.
Muzzin, Adam
Webb, Kristi A.
Biviano, Andrea
Cerulo, Pierluigi
Cooper, M. C.
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Date Issued

2021-10-01

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

920

Issue

1

Start page

32

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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early-type galaxies

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morphology-density relation

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pressure stripping events

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star-formation histories

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stellar mass

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spectroscopic confirmation

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atlas(3d) project

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angular-momentum

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size evolution

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slow rotators

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REVIEWED

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